We’ve heard from Charlie Day, so now it’s Rob McElhenney and Glenn Howerton’s turn to visit the Nerdist Podcast and bring us tidings from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Author’s Note: One of my favorites, both because Philadelphia and because it’s uniquely hysterical. Also, they occasionally mention things like Wawa). Mac and Dennis talk about how life has changed for the gang over the ten years of the show, especially as marriage and family have become involved, and how the show is the synthesis of Rob, Glenn, and Charlie’s very different senses of humor. You’ll also get the whole story about how the show made it to TV.

Celebrity physicist and familiar face on British TV Professor Brian Cox will drop by the Nerdist Podcast, and he’s got a friend in tow: none other than Eric Idle. The discussion covers evolution, the likelihood of extraterrestrial life, quantum mechanics… you know, light, easy stuff. But since it’s Brian Cox and Eric Idle, it’s totally entertaining. And Stephen Hawking’s comedic chops are revealed. By the way, Prof. Cox will be in New York, Chicago, L.A., and San Francisco in March, and you’re going to want to see that. And you should revisit Eric’s article for Nerdist about the updated “Galaxy Song,” in which Prof. Cox figures.

You’ll also get to hear the SF Sketchfest edition of the Nerdist Podcast. The topics include New Orleans (with an emphasis on projectile vomiting), Those Darn Millenials, travel, Matt’s bizarre health scare, and a whole buncha Quemments.

And Matt Thompson and Casey Willis, producers of Archer, will give you a behind-the-scenes look at that great show on Nerdist Writers Panel.

]]>http://www.nerdist.com/2015/02/coming-up-on-the-nerdist-podcast-network-always-sunny-prof-brian-cox-and-eric-idle-archer-and-more/feed/0IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA’s Charlie Day on Green Man, Canned Wine, PACIFIC RIM 2 and THE LEGO MOVIE 2http://www.nerdist.com/2015/01/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphias-charlie-day-on-green-man-canned-wine-pacific-rim-2-and-the-lego-movie-2/
http://www.nerdist.com/2015/01/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphias-charlie-day-on-green-man-canned-wine-pacific-rim-2-and-the-lego-movie-2/#commentsThu, 22 Jan 2015 00:30:23 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=218973Last week saw FXX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia return to TV (Wednesdays at 10 PM E/P) for its milestone tenth season, helped in no small part by star Charlie Day‘s “wild card” character Charlie Kelly. But since, in recent years, Day has widened his exposure in big-budget hit films like Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim and Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s The Lego Movie, we made sure to ask him about the status of their much-anticipated sequels when we caught up with him at this week’s TCA Winter Press Tour…

On reprising Benny in The Lego Movie 2…

I hope I get to, because I love doing it. But the phone has not rang yet. Those guys are busy and working, and they’re super-secretive about everything they do now. They’ve not told me yet. I hope that I get to come back.

On owning a Lego model of Benny’s spaceship…

I have a Benny, but I don’t have his spaceship. So I can keep my desire to build one alive. [Laughs.]

On Pacific Rim‘s reception and the announcement of Pacific Rim 2…

What did it make, four hundred million dollars? I was surprised that the story wasn’t that it was a giant success. It’s the first thing I’ve ever made that made close to half a billion dollars. [Laughs.] I don’t know what you have to do to be a success these days. So I was thrilled [when the sequel was announced], just to get the chance to work with Guillermo again. He’s such a special person. He created that world and those characters, and it’s great to be a part of something so original.

On why Guillermo approached him for the role…

He was a big fan of Always Sunny. He saw there was a scene where I was haunted from bashing rats, and he thought that I could be haunted from seeing kaiju. [Laughs.] He showed me drawings, he showed me sketches that he had done, and just showed me the world. It was just so exciting to be that into this man’s mind for a minute. I just loved that.

On moving from the TV comedy of Always Sunny to epic filmmaking…

You’d think it would be [different]. But at the end of the day my job is to really believe what I’m doing, between action and comedy. That didn’t change. The outfit changed, the world changed, the sets changed. [My approach didn’t change] too much. The only thing that was difficult was suddenly I realized, “I have all this scientific lingo that I truly have to sit down and memorize!” Normally I read a scene once or twice and get it, but these are words and things that I just don’t know. I had to almost learn a new language. That was a bit more challenging. But it was still the same thing, which is “Let’s come to work and make something interesting to watch.”

Both Pacific Rim and Lego are just choices of trust. Guillermo del Toro calls you up and if you’re me, you say yes. And it was the same with Lego. I knew Chris [Miller] and Phil Lord from when I worked on the Luis Guzman show and they were staff writers, and we did ten episodes. I just followed their careers. Up until that time we hadn’t worked together but we stayed in touch. I admire what they do, so really I just knew that I was in such good hands that all I had to do was come and give them what they wanted and have some fun. I did almost nothing. I worked two days. Then they go and they make a great movie.

On returning for Pacific Rim 2…

Unfortunately, it’s like Lego. They keep me in the dark. It’s a shame. I’m a decent writer. [Laughs.] But every now and then [Guillermo] will send me emails saying, “Get ready! Get ready for madness!” I’m hoping I’ll see something this year. So I don’t know. I know what you know. I’ve got to find out through the press, and occasionally Guillermo will be like, “You’re coming back.”

On whether Pacific Rim 2 and 3 could shoot back to back…

That’s an interesting idea. Yeah, that might be a good way to do it. That’s so out of my league, what to do. That’s Legendary’s ballgame, so I don’t know anything about it.

On It’s Always Sunny‘s Green Man phenomenon…

I’ve seen less Green Men, I think it’s calming down a bit. But it may still be out there. I’ll have to put the Green Man suit on again. I don’t think I’ve worn it since season 5, so maybe we’ll have to write something for season 11. [Laughs.]

On reports of airlines serving It’s Always Sunny‘s canned wine…

You know, when I was in high school, there was this kid, and he was one of the cool kids… I didn’t smoke, but he was a smoker, and I bumped into him and I noticed he was hiding a lit cigarette in his Coca-Cola can, so he could walk around the school and smoke a cigarette. And I thought, “Wow, that guy’s the coolest guy ever” — although I do not endorse smoking [laughs]. Then I thought of that for the canned wine episode. I’m surprised it’s taken off.

]]>http://www.nerdist.com/2015/01/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphias-charlie-day-on-green-man-canned-wine-pacific-rim-2-and-the-lego-movie-2/feed/0Review: HORRIBLE BOSSES 2http://www.nerdist.com/2014/11/review-horrible-bosses-2/
http://www.nerdist.com/2014/11/review-horrible-bosses-2/#commentsFri, 28 Nov 2014 18:00:24 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=203884Like it or not, we live in a world where any ol’ movie that’s successful in the least is going to get sequelized because studios think people will say, “Oh, that’s the same as that other thing I liked; I should see that because nothing can ever be different,” forgetting to take into account that people went to see the first thing in the first place knowing nothing about it. Regardless, this means that we can’t just have Horrible Bosses in our film-centric brains, we have to now have Horrible Bosses 2 featuring most of the main cast and nodding toward the first one many times. But, unlike a lot of these “well hey let’s make a sequel” sequels, Horrible Bosses 2 is actually really funny.

Directed by Sean Anders, who’s written or co-written such comedies as Sex Drive, Hot Tub Time Machine, and We’re the Millers, this sequel to the surprisingly profitable 2011 film takes its three hapless, dumb, and morally questionable heroes down another fork of the criminal path when yet another hopeless situation in their work life arises. The set-up is even more contrived than the previous film, but it goes to places the first one didn’t in terms of weird heist movie tropes.

The three dopes, Nick (Jason Bateman), Kurt (Jason Sudeikis), and Dale (Charlie Day) have all quit their respective jobs and gone into business together to create a thing called “The Shower Buddy,” an all-in-one, timed shower system that people in Sharper Image or reading SkyMall would totally buy. After an appearance on local television, they’re called in for a meeting with a huge distribution company exec Rex Hanson (Chris Pine), son of shrewd business magnate Bert Hanson (Christoph Waltz). They get offered a lot of money to sell their product to the Hansons, but, perhaps foolishly, they decide they just want to bet on themselves and keep the business. After making 100,000 units for Hanson, the billionaire reveals that he’s screwed them out of the patent and they’re now $500,000 in the hole. Without much choice, except literally a million other things, they decide the best course of action will be to kidnap Rex and hold him for ransom from his father. Things get worse for them from there.

This is a surprisingly plotty movie, but ultimately none of that matters. The Shower Buddy is just the MacGuffin that gets everything going and what we’re really watching, and why the movie easily passed the six laugh test (if it can make me laugh six times, it’s a successful comedy no matter how stupid), is the chemistry between Bateman, Day, and Sudeikis. Those three guys bantering and blathering on and on is never not hilarious. I still applaud the idea to get three of the best ad-libbers on the planet in one movie, and that’s what most of the first film’s success was based on. They just ARE funny, and bickering funny people might be my favorite thing in the world.

Seeing as it’s a sequel, though, we also had to get some of the other remaining cast members, like Jennifer Aniston as the sex-addicted dentist, Kevin Spacey as the murderous businessman, and Jamie Foxx as the all-purpose thug who doesn’t actually partake in much illegal activity, Motherf**er Jones. Hey, if you can get them all back, why wouldn’t you? Pine shows how good he is at being a slimy douchebag while Waltz doesn’t show us anything he hasn’t already won two Oscars for, except maybe golf. There’s also a really great performance from Jonathan Banks as the police detective who’s on the trail of these idiots.

This movie is just as dumb as the first one but also just as funny. I laughed several times in spite of myself. It’s not the best comedy ever but it’s very well acted and directed and its comedy comes from a number of different types of humor (the requisite dick-related jokes are certainly there) and if you liked the first one I’m sure you’ll like this one once the plot gets going and you can just watch funny people be funny.

Rating: 3 out of 5 Burritos

]]>http://www.nerdist.com/2014/11/review-horrible-bosses-2/feed/1Guillermo del Toro Spills a Few Beans on PACIFIC RIM 2http://www.nerdist.com/2014/11/guillermo-del-toro-spills-a-few-beans-on-pacific-rim-2/
http://www.nerdist.com/2014/11/guillermo-del-toro-spills-a-few-beans-on-pacific-rim-2/#commentsThu, 27 Nov 2014 01:30:18 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=205004I generally don’t write movie news pieces anymore. I used to do them every day (RIP, Cinematical) but these days I try to focus mainly on film reviews and super-nerdy articles that appeal to maybe 12% of the normal movie-watching population. (OK, maybe 16%.)

But when it comes to Guillermo del Toro, I’m kind of a pushover. I love this man. Plus the guy is offering some sequel info in his own words, which somehow feels a lot cooler than simply reading another icy press release. Additional plus: Pacific Rim is a whole lot of fun, and I’m sincerely psyched up to see where Billy the Bull and his collaborators will be heading for Pacific Rim 2.

The older news? Charlie Hunnam and Rinko Kikuchi are coming back for seconds. We knew that. The new news? So are the very amusing and super nerdy scientists played by Charlie Day and Burn Gorman. (No word yet on if Ron Perlman will reprise his role as Hannibal Chau, but I’m betting the man will be back as well.) So that’s four central character returning, but what about the plot?

Del Toro says Part 2 will pick up several years after Pacific Rim, and at least partially deals with “what happens to the Jaeger technology once the Kaiju are not a threat.” That’s it? No more plot information?

Well, sure. But just a little. The movie’s not due until 2017, after all.

]]>http://www.nerdist.com/2014/11/guillermo-del-toro-spills-a-few-beans-on-pacific-rim-2/feed/14Movie Morsels: GAMBIT Movie Details, SUICIDE SQUAD Eyeing A-List Actors, BEN-HUR Adds Wonder Woman and the Red Viper, and Morehttp://www.nerdist.com/2014/10/movie-morsels-gambit-movie-details-suicide-squad-eyeing-a-list-actors-ben-hur-adds-wonder-woman-and-the-red-viper-and-more/
http://www.nerdist.com/2014/10/movie-morsels-gambit-movie-details-suicide-squad-eyeing-a-list-actors-ben-hur-adds-wonder-woman-and-the-red-viper-and-more/#commentsThu, 16 Oct 2014 13:00:54 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=192196Yesterday seemed like an all-you-can-eat buffet of movie news, so today’s Movie Morsels is a veritable smorgasbord of cinematic delights. We’ve got the skinny on who might be starring in Suicide Squad, the latest on who’s joining Ben-Hur, details about the Gambit solo film and much more.

Gambit

After DC Comics dominated yesterday’s headlines and Disney made waves with a bombshell of a Captain America 3 announcement, it was about time we heard from the other tentacles of the writhing kraken that is Marvel Studios. In an interview with MTV, Channing Tatum talked about the new approach they’ll be taking with the Cajun card-flinging con man’s solo film:

“I don’t want to give too much away because we don’t know that much right now other than…we obviously know who Gambit is. We really do want to try our hardest to give something fresh. We’re obviously going to go to the saving the world superhero movies eventually, but maybe not for the first one.

“We want to introduce this character in a very different way. You know, when you try to do something different you never really know, right off the bat, what that is. We’re feeling our way, and really just kind of proving the concept of that person.”

A very different way? So just like not the way we met him in Wolverine: Origins, right? Or maybe at a high-stakes poker tournament where he accidentally imbues his hand with kinetic energy? Anyway, you can color me intrigued, Tatum. [MTV]

In case you missed it yesterday, Warner Bros. unveiled a massive production slate of DC Comics movies including Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman, Justice League, The Flash, and more. Find out what’s coming out between now and 2020. [Nerdist]

Suicide Squad

The movie was just officially announced by Warner Bros. yesterday and there is already news that they’re courting some major talent for the David Ayer-directed Suicide Squad. Among those being targeted to embrace their villainous side are Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Will Smith, and Tom Hardy. Which members of the Squad they’d be playing though remains a mystery, but how sweet would a movie with those four actors be? Although as much as I love Gosling, I have difficulty picturing him as a member of a superhero team. [ComingSoon]

The Lego Movie

Actually, that should read The Lego Movie(s) because Warner Bros. also announced a trilogy of LEGO-inspired films as a follow-up to this year’s best animated film. You can read all about what’s in store — LEGO Batman (!) — plus get the details on a Harry Potter spin-off trilogy right here. [Nerdist]

Steve Jobs

“Hey, you know what the world needs right now? Another Steve Jobs biopic! You know who would be great to play him? Christian Bale,” said no one ever. Yet in spite of that seemingly impossible statement, that’s exactly what’s happening. Bale recently bailed on an adaptation of The Deep Blue Goodbye and, looking for another project to fill his dance card, he is in talks to play Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in the Danny Boyle-helmed biopic written by Aaron Sorkin. Bale will be stepping into the shoes recently vacated by Leonardo DiCaprio, so it definitely seems they’re definitely casting for the “super intense A-lister who dives headlong into roles and really, really digs biopics”.

The biopic will reportedly take place over the course of three major product launches, according to ScreenCrush:

“This entire movie is going to be three scenes, and three scenes only, that all take place in real time. There’ll be no time cuts. Each of these three scenes is going to take place before a product launch…The first one being the Mac, the second one being NeXT after he left Apple and the third one being the iPod.”

As if playing Wonder Woman wasn’t enough, it looks like Gal Gadot is doubling down on playing characters of ancient origin. It’s being reported that the Israeli actress is circling the female lead in the forthcoming Timur Bekmambetov-directed remake of Ben-Hur. She would be stepping into the role of Esther, a slave who eventually falls in love with Ben-Hur (played by Jack Huston). Filling out the rest of the cast are Huston, Morgan Freeman, and Toby Kebbell, so she’d be in very esteemed company. [Latino Review]

Also boarding the project? A fine import from the faraway land of Dorne! Game of Thrones star Pedro Pascal has joined the project as Pontius Piate, who plays a significant role in this version of the film, which is closer to the 1880 Lew Wallace novel than the 1959 Charlton Heston-starring film. [Deadline]

Honestly, this film gets cooler every time I hear about it. Hopefully it can live up to the hype.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Have you had your fill of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies posters yet? Well, too bad because you’ll be getting one for each and every member of the five armies. Warner Bros. has released three more posters and three new banners too because the only thing longer than Peter Jackson’s Hobbit films is the promotional campaign around them. [Collider]

Horrible Bosses 2

The world’s most put-upon employees are back and this time they’re bringing an ensemble poster with them! The latest poster for Horrible Bosses 2 assembles the entire gang and, as usual, no one looks as uncomfortable as Charlie Day. [Yahoo! Movies]

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What do you think of today’s top stories? Let me know in the comments below or tell me on Twitter (@osteoferocious)!

]]>http://www.nerdist.com/2014/10/movie-morsels-gambit-movie-details-suicide-squad-eyeing-a-list-actors-ben-hur-adds-wonder-woman-and-the-red-viper-and-more/feed/0The Shelf: THEY CAME TOGETHER, NEW GIRL, IT’S ALWAYS SUNNYhttp://www.nerdist.com/2014/09/the-shelf-they-came-together-new-girl-its-always-sunny/
http://www.nerdist.com/2014/09/the-shelf-they-came-together-new-girl-its-always-sunny/#commentsTue, 02 Sep 2014 19:00:48 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=178475It’s laughs aplenty this week on The Shelf, with three of the best television comedies and a truly hilarious film parodying a whole genre of predictable schmaltz. Also on deck, a divisive entry in the robots turning into stuff oeuvre and a D-grade sci-fi movie worth talking about for one paragraph.

Romantic comedies, by and large, are my least favorite genre of movie. While there are outliers in every data set, I generally find them to be incredibly formulaic and trite and generally hokum for no reason. The scenarios stretch even the flimsiest of realities and the conflicts seem more forced than Shia LaBeouf attempting to not come across as douchey (it’s not gonna happen). Evidently, writers David Wain and Michael Showalter feel the same way about them and have decided to skewer every single trope in the history of the rom-com in what is probably the funniest film I’ve seen in who knows how long.

Though David Wain has directed a couple more mainstream comedies in the last few years like Role Models and Wanderlust, not to mention all his great work with Children’s Hospital, his masterpiece still seems to be 2001′s Wet Hot American Summer, which he also co-wrote with his The State and Stella cohort Michael Showalter. They Came Together feels like a continuation of that type of movie-making, with broad parody and absurd humor running the entire 83-minute length. It’s a very packed 83 minutes, though; I don’t think I stopped laughing for more than 45 seconds at a time.

New Girl Season 3
After a first season that took a little while to find the proper adorkable quotient, Fox’s New Girl really came into its own in the second season, eventually culminating in the answer to the Will They/Won’t They quandary with Zooey Deschanel’s titular Jess and Jake Johnson’s Nick much earlier than anyone expected. That answer: they will. This led to a third season which was all about re-establishing norms, with Schmidt (Max Greenfield) proving what a douche he can actually be and the return of the pilot episode’s Coach (Damon Wayans Jr). Winston (Lamorne Morris) became weirder and weirder as the year went on as the writers decided to just make him basically the most quirky and ridiculous of any of the characters, while with Cece (Hannah Simone), they went the other way and didn’t do anything with her, which is a shame. Still, anytime you get Johnson and/or Greenfield in a scene, I’m probably going to laugh and this season had no shortage of that nonsense.

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 9
It’s so insane, and it makes me feel incredibly old, to think that It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has been on for almost a decade. That is nutso. For its ninth season, the gang gets up to ten episodes worth of depraved hilarity and takes on subjects like gun control, depression, religious persecution, and, as usual, getting high, as only they can, which is to say in a shockingly dark fashion. This season is especially notable for having a whole episode be a Flowers for Algernon parody with a scientist doing an experiment on Charlie to make him smart. This was written by Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Just the funniest.

The League Season 5
Also hard to believe The League has been on for five years, but the travails of a fantasy football league and their disparate members still makes with the funny. Standout episodes this season include “Rafi and Dirty Randy,” written by Jason Mantzoukas and Seth Rogen and focused entirely on their characters going to Los Angeles to avenge the death of their friend and to get into the world of profession (legitimate) pornography, as well as another similar idea as Sunny, “Flowers for Taco,” where Taco becomes immediately smarter once he stops being high for a little while. Both super weird and both quite funny.

Transformers: Beast Machines The Complete Series
The Transformers saga went organic in the mid-90s with the premiere of the divisive (but ultimately, I think, super awesome) Beast Wars which had the Autobots and Decepticons’ descendants, the Maximals and Predacons, leaving Cybertron, crashing into pre-humanity Earth, and picking animal forms to continue their war. The show used some awesome (for the time) CG animation and the storytelling was actually quite good, especially later on in the series. The success of this led to a follow-up series, developed by Marv Wolfman and moved from syndication to the Fox Network’s Saturday morning lineup. This show was Beast Machines, which became even more divisive among fans for its somber tone, serialized format, and heavy spiritual themes.

After apparently winning the Beast Wars, the Maximals wake up back on Cybertron, only to find that Megatron has somehow taken over and all other individual sparks (or souls) are gone. The Maximals have little to no memory of anything that happened and slowly find out that it may have been their fault Megatron has become the supreme deity. They also find out they’re down two team members and don’t know why. Megatron employs Vehicons, pretty much just a return to Decepticon-style baddies, as his generals and Optimus Primal has to thwart his nemesis’ machine-only extremism by becoming more balanced between nature and technology. So, Buddhism basically. While not everyone’s cup of tea at all, I think Beast Machines is a fitting, if melancholy, follow-up to Beast Wars.

Space Raiders
I’m including this here simply because it’s a sci-fi movie made for little kids and was one of the last of the Roger Corman-produced Star Wars rip-offs. What’s particularly notable is that all of the space effects shots and the entire score (by James Cameron and James Horner, respectively) were taken from the earlier, and infinitely better, Battle Beyond the Stars. Just used in their entirety. It’s hilarious, especially because it’s only three years after that movie came out. Makes me laugh.

]]>http://www.nerdist.com/2014/09/the-shelf-they-came-together-new-girl-its-always-sunny/feed/0Chris Hemsworth, Charlie Day to Go On VACATION With Ed Helmshttp://www.nerdist.com/2014/08/chris-hemsworth-charlie-day-to-go-on-vacation-with-ed-helms/
http://www.nerdist.com/2014/08/chris-hemsworth-charlie-day-to-go-on-vacation-with-ed-helms/#commentsTue, 26 Aug 2014 00:15:00 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=177544New Line is still booking their Vacation sequel, and they’re bringing Thor and the Night Man along for the ride.

The studio announced that Thor: The Dark World star Chris Hemsworth and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia co-creator and star Charlie Day are joining the cast of the travel comedy. The film would be a followup to the National Lampoon Vacation films, with Ed Helms (The Office) playing Rusty Griswold, son of Chevy Chase’s Clark Griswold in the original series. Curse road trips seem to be hereditary, as Rusty takes his family on one that

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hemsworth would play the improbably-named Stone Crandall, husband to Audrey, Rusty Griswold’s sister. No idea how meaty his role in the film would be, but Vacation would be the first comedy feature for Hemsworth, who’s been picking up a lot of drama and action roles since Thor hit the theaters of Midgard.

Audrey hasn’t been cast yet, but previously, she was played by Juliette Lewis, Dana Baron, Dana Hill, and Marisol Nichols. Previous Rustys have included Ethan Embry, Jason Lively, Anthony Michael Hall, and Johnny Galecki. Christina Applegate will play Rusty’s wife with Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo stopping by for cameos.

Day will play a river rafting guide, one who will presumably have a loud mini-freakout at the Griswold clan. Or they could be casting against type, but you don’t cast Charlie Day unless you want some yellin’.

The film is the directorial debut of John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, who are also writing the script.

Vacation starts shooting in September. Are you excited to take a trip with the Griswolds again? Let us know in the comments below.

]]>http://www.nerdist.com/2014/08/chris-hemsworth-charlie-day-to-go-on-vacation-with-ed-helms/feed/8Get a Look at HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 in the First Trailerhttp://www.nerdist.com/2014/07/get-a-look-at-horrible-bosses-2-in-the-first-trailer/
http://www.nerdist.com/2014/07/get-a-look-at-horrible-bosses-2-in-the-first-trailer/#commentsWed, 02 Jul 2014 17:03:47 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=163714One of the more surprise hit films of the last few years was the Jason Bateman starring Warner Bros. comedy, Horrible Bosses. About a trio of disgruntled employees who attempt to murder each other’s higher-ups, the film was a hit with both critics and audiences, raking in a hefty $200 million dollars at the box office off a $35 million budget. Now, with the success of the first film long passed, we move to the next chapter in the saga with Horrible Bosses 2, a film that sees Bateman return with co-stars Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day for another round of hijinks. With its November release date approaching, the studio has released the first trailer for the film:

SWAT teams, trains, assault rifles… certainly no one can argue the scale of the sequel hasn’t been ramped up. The scene with Spacey in prison definitely gives us a 22 Jump Street vibe a la that film’s trailer gave us a scene of Rob Riggle in prison after the events of the first film, and we all know how that turned out. With any luck, 22 Jump Street will be the level of comedy comparison we can expect from Horrible Bosses 2, but for right now, all we really want is a good movie.

For the uninitiated, according to /Film, the plot of the sequel is as follows: “Fed up with answering to higher-ups, Nick, Dale and Kurt decide to become their own bosses by launching their own business, but a slick investor soon pulls the rug out from under them. Outplayed and desperate, and with no legal recourse, the three would-be entrepreneurs hatch a misguided plan to kidnap the investor’s adult son and ransom him to regain control of their company.”

Are you going to see Horrible Bosses 2? Let us know in the comments below.

]]>http://www.nerdist.com/2014/07/get-a-look-at-horrible-bosses-2-in-the-first-trailer/feed/0Guillermo del Toro Says He’s Writing PACIFIC RIM 2http://www.nerdist.com/2014/06/guillermo-del-toro-says-hes-writing-pacific-rim-2/
http://www.nerdist.com/2014/06/guillermo-del-toro-says-hes-writing-pacific-rim-2/#commentsSun, 08 Jun 2014 20:33:48 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=156023As far as I’m concerned, Guillermo del Toro’s monsters vs. robots epic Pacific Rim was one of the most enjoyable movie going experiences of the year in 2013. Everything about it worked for me from its off-beat sense of humor to the action sequences and all of the fun that was in between. Unfortunately, despite doing big business overseas, the film was a disappointment domestically and the chances of a Pacific Rim 2 were looking slim. However, while speaking to BuzzFeed this weekend at the Austin Television Festival del Toro said that he, along with The Incredible Hulk screenwriter Zak Penn, have been writing a follow up to the monster epic.

del Toro told Buzzfeed, “I don’t have the money, but I’m proceeding like it is happening” and went on to clarify that the movie would not be a prequel as some had speculated. He explained, “Some people were wondering if we were going to do the prequel. I was never interested in doing that first wave of invasion. I’m going for very new, very crazy ideas on the second one, which are very different from the first one — but you will get really great spectacle.”

In the meantime, del Toro’s latest project, the television series The Strain, premieres on FX next month.

]]>http://www.nerdist.com/2014/06/guillermo-del-toro-says-hes-writing-pacific-rim-2/feed/13MIFVOTD 5/22/14: Charlie Day’s Commencement Speech at Merrimackhttp://www.nerdist.com/2014/05/mifvotd-52214-charlie-days-commencement-speech-at-merrimack/
http://www.nerdist.com/2014/05/mifvotd-52214-charlie-days-commencement-speech-at-merrimack/#commentsFri, 23 May 2014 00:00:24 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=151179Today’s Most Intentionally Funny Video Of The Day has It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia‘s Charlie Day return to his alma mater, Merrimack College, and delivering a wonderful commencement speech to their most recent graduates. Unlike many commencement speeches, Day opted to hilariously recount pranks that he pulled during his time as a Merrimack student, cursing while somehow being inspirational.

Per usual, I’m taking submissions for the MIFV like so many featured in the past. I love finding new, hilarious videos from people hundreds and thousands of miles away, so please do send your videos so long as they follow the rules below. -E-mail embeddable video link to thecomedybureau@gmail.com with subject line “MIFV Submission” -Videos must have been posted online (i.e. have a time stamp that says so) within exactly two weeks from when you submit (i.e. videos uploaded more than 14 days from the day when you submit will not be up for consideration) -Don’t add any cover letters or explanations; please just send the link